Hopefully they take some tips from Trump regarding the Irish border. It needs to have transparent sections so we can avoid bags of drugs from the air but also so we can press our faces up against it and see how green the grass is on the other side

BID0 wrote:Hopefully they take some tips from Trump regarding the Irish border. It needs to have transparent sections so we can avoid bags of drugs from the air but also so we can press our faces up against it and see how green the grass is on the other side

And to see those lovely EU funded motorways through the Irish countryside.

Isn't Defend Europe a predominantly German racist pressure group? Hardly a great advert all round for the EU response to the migrant crisis.

I actually think the ongoing migrant crisis is one of the great scandals of our time and most people seem oblivious that it is still going on and that so many people are being exploited and so many lives are still being lost.

captain red dog wrote:Isn't Defend Europe a predominantly German racist pressure group? Hardly a great advert all round for the EU response to the migrant crisis.

What have the actions of a racist German group got to do with the EU as a whole?

I agree that the response has been dreadful, but that's due to the arseholes all over Europe not wanting refugees ("check their teeth!", "I don't see any women or children!" "It's an invasion!"). The EU is stuck as very few of the member states want to help out, the UK being one of them!

Anyway, I only posted it as it's amusing that the anti-refugee boat needed to be rescued by the refugee boat.

Yet ironically the UK had the best plan for tackling the crisis by far by processing applications and safely taking people directly from refugee camps, yet Merkel and other leaders chose to ignore it and ended up encouraging many more dangerous sea crossings.

Isn't Defend Europe a predominantly German racist pressure group? Hardly a great advert all round for the EU response to the migrant crisis.

I actually think the ongoing migrant crisis is one of the great scandals of our time and most people seem oblivious that it is still going on and that so many people are being exploited and so many lives are still being lost.

I don't think so, the mission has a lot of UK fundraising behind it and Katie Hopkins

BBC Newsbeat wrote:German minister says too many people are speaking English in Berlin

A popular German politician says too many people are speaking English in everyday life in the country.Jens Spahn, who some people think could replace current Chancellor Angela Merkel, is the junior finance minister.

"It drives me up the wall the way waiters in Berlin restaurants only speak English," he told a German newspaper.

He says Germans are too relaxed on the issue and that it would never happen in Paris.

Mr Spahn thinks "co-existence can only work in Germany if we all speak German" and wants all immigrants to learn the language.

Areas in Berlin like Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg are home to lots of American expats and they have restaurants and bars with staff recruited from across Europe.

That means it's not unusual to find English menus and waiters with limited German.

Speaking English is also seen as an important skill in Germany, with most children learning it as soon as they start primary school.

But the German language is increasingly turning into a political issue with a perceived threat from immigration.

The government in Germany has made it compulsory for asylum seekers to learn German and those who don't can lose their benefits and right to live there permanently.

The rule doesn't apply to EU residents though, with many people coming to Germany to look for work.

The EU has also warned that English could be dropped as an official language after Brexit as it is "losing importance".

That's according to the leader of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, who is responsible for the day to day running of the EU and bringing in new laws.

Last week, three German MPs wrote a letter to chancellor Angela Merkel and EU officials to demand that English is used less often and German more regularly.

In a letter to Mrs Merkel the three wrote: "In addition to the equal use of the German language as a working language in the bodies of the European Union and increased use in all international institutions, the German language especially needs to be thoroughly used in our own country."

In a letter to Mrs Merkel the three wrote: "In addition to the equal use of the German language as a working language in the bodies of the European Union and increased use in all international institutions, the German language especially needs to be thoroughly used in our own country."